TN CM requests PM to Dam Safety Bill in abeyance

The Tamil Nadu government today urged the Centre to keep in abeyance its decision to enact a Dam Safety Bill, recalling it had earlier raised some objections and that it had not received any revised draft on the matter thereafter.

In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister K Palaniswami requested that the decision arrived at by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday to legislate the Act on the Dam Safety Bill, 2018, be kept in abeyance till all states were consulted and a consensus was evolved.

He said late Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa had earlier raised objections to “certain clauses” of the draft Bill, 2016 .